Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
3 RD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ENGINEERING AND LIFE SCIENCE FORESTR «THE BALANCE OF THE LIFE: CARBON», Trabzon, Türkiye, 20 - 22 Eylül 2023, ss.103-107
Many expectations such as benefiting from forests all year round, providing transportation for people,
protecting forests, transporting wood raw materials are only possible with forest roads that provide access to forests.
Today, with the increase of global warming, forest fires have affected the whole world. If the forests cannot be reached
and intervened during the fire, the forests that hold carbon start to release carbon during the fire. This situation reveals
the importance of forest roads, which make it possible to fight fires. In this study, the effect of forest road construction
on existing forest asset will be tried to be revealed by using geographic information systems. For this purpose, analyzes
were carried out on a forest road built in 2019 in Osmangolu Forest Management Directorate, which is within the borders
of Kastamonu Regional Directorate of Forestry Ilgaz Operation Directorate. Controlled classification was made using
SNAP software on two satellite images of 2018 and 2023 and the current forest change was revealed. By determining the
differences between these two situations, the effect of this change on forest carbon, the effects of the road construction
area on the surrounding stands and the condition of these stands after the road construction were evaluated. As a result,
the relationship between the construction of a forest road and the existing vegetation and thus forest carbon has been tried
to be revealed.